St. Petersburg Police Section
TAMPA, Fla. (CNN) — A lacking Florida toddler who was located dead in the mouth of an alligator last week was put in the lake by his father, who is also accused of killing the kid’s mother, in accordance to St. Petersburg police affidavits.
Thomas Mosley, 21, is facing two counts of very first-degree murder, in accordance to the affidavits.
“Because of to the really severe allegations bordering these tragic losses, our investigation is at the moment concentrated on collecting details about the details and conditions of the case, as nicely as our client’s mental state,” a spokesperson for Sixth Judicial Circuit Public Defender Sara Mollo said in a assertion.
Mosley allegedly “did throw or spot” his 2-calendar year-outdated son, Taylen, into a lake, inflicting “mortal wounds” that brought on the child’s dying, in accordance to one of the affidavits.
Taylen had been claimed lacking following his mother, Pashun Jeffery, 20, was located lifeless in her condominium Thursday afternoon with multiple stab wounds, law enforcement earlier claimed.
The night time just before Jeffery was found, Mosley allegedly went to his mother’s property with “serious lacerations to equally of his palms and arms steady with injuries triggered by slippage through a knife assault” and was admitted to a healthcare facility, according to an affidavit.
On Thursday, Jeffery’s spouse and children went to examine on her and allegedly saw blood on the sidewalk from her condominium, the affidavit claimed. They identified Jeffery inside of lifeless with “obvious cuts and stabs in surplus of 100 wounds,” in accordance to an affidavit.
“A bloody fingerprint on a cleaning bottle which had been intentionally placed underneath a bed in the crime scene was determined to (Mosley),” the affidavit claimed. “A bloody shoe print with a ‘Gucci’ emblem was situated on the rest room ground the place the sufferer was uncovered,” the affidavit carries on.
The 2 calendar year aged was not at the crime scene and authorities introduced a research for the boy.
The adhering to day, an alligator was spotted in Dell Households Park just miles absent from where Jeffery was observed dead, with an object in its mouth, police said. Officers fired a solitary spherical at the reptile and it dropped the object.
Officers were in a position to retrieve what they identified to be Taylen’s overall body, which was intact, according to police. The alligator was euthanized, an affidavit included.
Mosley was booked in the Pinellas County Jail on Friday, in accordance to the web site of the sheriff’s office. He is scheduled for a bond listening to on April 11.
CNN reached out to the Office of the Condition Attorney, who did not provide a remark.
